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  Trends in human development and human poverty in Namibia

  United Nations Development Programme, 2007

  This paper uses a capability approach to analyse current levels and recent trends in socioeconomic development and poverty in Namibia. Based on official national data sources the Human development Index (HDI) and Human Poverty Index (HPI) for Namibia are computed and analysed.
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  Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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  Reflections on poverty and inequality in South Africa: policy considerations in an emerging democracy

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006

  This paper analyses the nature and dimensions of poverty and inequality in South Africa, focusing on the gains that have been made and gaps that remain. The findings include:
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  The impact of growth and redistribution on poverty and inequality in South Africa

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  The authors evaluate the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality trends since democracy in 1994. They argue that while it remains contested whether there are fewer people in poverty today, there is greater consensus among analysts that inequality has increased since 1994.
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  Trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007

  Conventional approaches to measuring poverty and inequality that use money-metric data overlook social aspects of poverty. This paper uses the multidimensional, asset index, approach to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006

  This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.
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  Horizontal inequalities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: issues and policies

  Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007

  This paper analyses the nature and extent of prevailing Horizontal Inequalities (HIs). The research particularly focuses on what can be done to reduce actual and perceived HIs in three West African countries, Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The authors discuss a number of specific findings in each case and then present overall findings. Some of these include:
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  Understanding regional poverty and inequality trends in China: methodological issues and empirical findings

  Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, 2007

  The March 2007 special issue of the Review of Income and Wealth focuses on regional poverty and inequality in China. This first paper provides a time profile of China's regional inequality by calculating a Theil-L index which suggests the need to tackle the urban-rural gap as a priority over regional gaps.
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  Where the poor are: an atlas of poverty

  Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 2006

  This atlas brings together a varied collection of maps from many continents and countries, depicting small area estimates of vital development indicators in significant spatial detail, and discussing their many potential uses.The maps demonstrate a number of scenarios:the global spread of poverty is illustrated by the worldwide scale of infant mortality the global distribution of hunger
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  Inequality aversion and stochastic decision-making: experimental evidence from Zimbabwean villages after land reform

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006

  Land reform has come to dictate a great deal more than simple distribution in many African countries.

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